VOTE 100%

Fine and Good - but who the hell am I to tell you how to vote, right?

Vote 100% at Steemit by Meredith Loughran
These minnows vote 100%

Well, I've got something to say about it and you can take it at face value or go on your merry way.

If you haven't read Hive account@markrmorrisjr's post Dude Where's Our Votes? #DolphinSchool, the vote weirdness of the past two days and a balanced approach to it!, you really ought to.

He clearly extrapolates that voting limits are on people's minds and possibly curbed their voting habits. WHY?

Well, about 2 weeks ago I wrote about my thoughts on the hardfork changes that were to happen on September 13th. You can read it here if you'd like.

Hive account@hisnameisollie wrote The New '5 Vote Target' does NOT Reduce Rewards - It Democratises Steemit Curation!!

Hive account@razvanelulmarin wrote I will become a whale in 24hours, here's how.

Those are only 3 articles of active users finding reasons why going from 40 to 5 votes at full strength was a good idea. We were on board and coaxed the nay-sayers.

We had two solid weeks to think about it and figure out our new voting/curating game plan.

But then it changed

From community concerns and backlash, the developers decided not to go through with the changes in voting power.

Too many of you did not get that message.

"What we've got here is...failure to communicate." - from Cool Hand Luke

Read this: (from GitHub)

Vote Balancing

We have reverted the changes to vote balancing from 0.14.0. Voting power and vote weights are unaffected in this release
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Correct me if I'm wrong

If you go to Steemd.com and type in your @ username, you will see how many vests you have.

I finally broke a million and earned my vote slider.

In my humble opinion, the vote slider is a pain in the ass because it's one more button I have to click.
Listen, if I bother to vote, I'm giving 100% - and most of the time I follow up with a comment.

WHY? Because I'm a friggin minnow - that's why!
And I'll probably be a minnow for a long-assed time because I have to have between 10 - 100 million vests to be a dolphin - and <100 million vests to be a whale.

What does this mean?

It means that while you're a growing minnow, your votes aren't worth that much in monetary value - but they are priceless to those who are growing their community.

> And here's a news flash <

Your comments offset the loss of vote power

It's true.

I make it a habit to go through my feed and upvote my favorites. I just go down the line and upvote like a bandit while opening their blog post in a new tab. Then I visit each tab to read at my leisure and comment... And my vote power recovers with every comment.

Don't believe me? Then I challenge you to try this experiment for yourself.

Open up a new tab for Steemd.com and check your vote power.
In new tabs, start upvoting your favorite blogs.
See how your vote power decreases (hit the F5 button for that tab to refresh, y'all)
Now go ahead and begin to comment on those blog posts.
Refresh your Steemd tab and see how your vote power increases.

It is my thought that even if the 5 full vote power was implemented, minnows would still be virtually unaffected.

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Do it.

Here's Your Call to Action

We're not hookers.

Stop the Wham, Bam, Thank-you, Ma'am upvotes for 100th of a penny! Yeah, you, minnows! You know who you are.
COMMENT and get to know us
COMMENT to stabilize your vote power
COMMENT because you frikken care

Final Thoughts

I think I've said my peace and getting off the soap-box now. Oh, and I'll take your pennies if you leave them - but I'm no hooker. Leave a damn comment!

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